THE DRUG TRAFFIC
CHINESE LEADER'S AIM TOTAL SUPPRESSION (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SHANGHAI, May 9. Determined to stamp out the opiam evil and all forms of drug dealing, General Chiang Kai-shek has issued an order to all the Provincial Governments and military organs warning them that all persons found engaged iu the manufacture, transport, or sale of narcotics will receive capital punishment. Chiang is prepared to go to any lengths to enforce the order, since fines and imprisonment are of little avail. He claims that there are 200,000 known opium addicts in Kiangsu Province alone. He aims at the total suppression of the evil in that .province within six years by striking directly at the persons conducting tho trade in narcotics. A CASE IN SUVA. ...' • TWO MEN CHARGED. SUVA, May 10. A Chinese (Wong Chow) and George Keat were committed. for trial in jhc Supreme Court on charges of importing opium and being in possession of opium respectively, Chow was a passenger on the Aorangi which arrived here from Auckland ou May 4.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22259, 11 May 1934, Page 9
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